Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru? (How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?)

During a regular after-school grub crawl, gluttonous high schooler Hibiki Sakura is confronted about her ever-expanding waistline by her best friend, Ayaka Uehara. With her attempts at solitary exercise failing miserably, Hibiki decides to join the newly opened Silverman Gym. At her orientation, Hibiki runs into student council president and school idol Akemi Souryuuin.

However, it soon turns out that Hibiki is in for a lot more than she bargained for. Not only is Silverman Gym full of world-renowned bodybuilders and athletes, but to make matters worse, Akemi turns out to be a total muscle fetishist! Grossed out by the scene unfolding before her eyes, Hibiki begins to leave, only to be stopped by trainer Naruzou Machio. Completely enthralled with her newfound Prince Charming, Hibiki signs up as a gym member. Now, as a result of her spur-of-the-moment decision, Hibiki must adapt to her new lifestyle.

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Sakura, Hibiki

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Fairouz Ai
Japanese

Souryuuin, Akemi

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Amamiya, Sora
Japanese

Machio, Naruzou

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Ishikawa, Kaito
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Boyd, Gina

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Touyama, Nao
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Sekibayashi, Jun

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Inada, Tetsu
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Tachibana, Satomi

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Horie, Yui
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Uehara, Ayaka

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Ishigami, Shizuka
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Shortsinator, Barnold

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Genda, Tesshou
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Aina, Rumika

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Tomatsu, Haruka
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Garson, Kristal

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Uchida, Shuu
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Cook, Justin

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Kikushima, Kazufumi

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Iizuka, Aya

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Ogata, Mitsuhiro

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"Onegai Muscle (お願いマッスル)" by Hibiki Sakura (Ai Fairuz), & Naruzou Machio (Kaito Ishikawa)

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"Macho a Name? (マッチョアネーム？)" by Naruzou Machio (Kaito Ishikawa)

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Feb 7, 2022

shuffle_017

Recommended

Read dozens of praising in video/text review

Just now, at the end of summer, it dawn upon me. "Maybe I need to watch this~"

I after 1 episode...man oh my..it is interesting!

no. honestly, it is. Now I could join their agreement saying this anime is actually pretty nice.

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Sep 1, 2023

Sloth_Cafe

Mixed Feelings

The idea of How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? is more entertaining than the execution. I dropped the manga for this years ago, and have finally gotten around to watching the anime 4 years late. The idea of a series legitimately giving you work out advice is great, and for the most part the advice and instruction this series gives is good. I used to workout a lot when I was younger so to some degree I am the target audience except I am not a newbie by any means. The show does a pretty good job explaining how to do different exercises while ... keeping in mind that the watcher may not be familiar with a lot of terminology as well as providing some easier versions to get started. Especially with body weight workouts. Sometimes you have to build up to doing it normally. With a few exceptions they explain everything well. I feel like this is a hard show to tag. It is really an educational show that had to be dressed up with standard anime tropes and gimmicks to make your average weeb, or otaku interested in it. Which I get, but for me those were the weaker parts.

Now I am going to briefly rant about 3 things they show that I thought were weird, or is just bad advice. Don't do dips with chairs especially if you are not used to them normally! The biggest problem is not breaking the chair it is losing your balance and hurting yourself. I used to do this in school, and never got hurt however telling someone who has not done dips normally is a bad idea. What is up with the catch bars for bench press? Whenever anyone in the show is benching they have the bars up, and are barely going down. This is going to build a lot less muscle, but maybe it makes sense for the girls to do this. The show never says that though. I have never seen anyone bench like that so I wonder if it is a Japan thing. Lastly Akemi needs to tie her hair up for like half of the weight lifts they do. Especially squats. In the first episode she does squats with the bar over her hair. That is going to hurt a lot, and is just laziness on whoever made that scene to not adjust for it.

Outside of that the characters are just fun enough to carry the show. Hibiki's goal of losing weight to get a boyfriend is both admirable and silly. She is not going to struggle to find a guy, and really none of the 5 lead girls would. Their only problem is that they go to an all girls school, and the gym they go to is filled with roided out freaks. Speaking of the freaks Machio looks absurd, and every time he flexes his clothes off they should have just left them on. His head is so off portion to his body that he looks ridiculous. The first few times it is a little amusing, but after a while every time he has to explain a new workout it gets old real fast. Whenever Macchio is heavily involved in what is going on is when the show is at it's worst. In a show where the main appeal is cute girls working out having all of these super buff guys around is a weird choice. Who is that even for? The other girls have their own gimmicks with varying quality they are not very deep. Gina's constant misunderstandings about Japan was probably the funniest thing the show had going. Akemi's muscle fetish is going to be funny for some, but just weird for others. Honestly I liked Ayaka, but she did not have much going on for the show. She is kind of just Hibike's friend who does boxing that one episode, and is really cut. Tachibana sensei is likable enough with her cosplay hobby that she wants to keep secret. They are not the strongest group, but having the 5 act as the vehicles to deliver the workout lessons worked well enough.

6/10
I do like this show, but outside of the working out lessons part everything else is mediocre. A lot of the parts that do not start at the gym are not very good, and sometimes their wild ideas did not pay off. Not for me anyway. I remember why I dropped the manga, but being 12 episodes this was fun to revisit. If the idea of an anime about cute anime girls learning how to different exercises with you does not appeal to you then you may want to skip this. The rest of the show surrounding it is just okay, and I don't know if the initial parody of workout culture is going to work for everyone who was initially just drawn to the show because of what it looks like. The ecchi is not too bad, but being an anime revolved around working out the show dos not really feel like a slice of life either. The ending scene was very nice though.

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Jul 1, 2020

ktulu007

Not Recommended

Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru is an anime from last year. It's a Doga Kobo series based off of a Web Manga. You know, the studio behind New Game & Yuru Yuri. I have yet to review a bad anime from them. So, let's dive in with a little cautious optimism.

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Sakura Hibiki is worried about her weight and her inability to attract a hunky boy. So, she decides to hit the gym. Little realising that her unattractiveness stems from being dumb as a brick and not her appearance. She tries the newly opened Silverman gym and winds up collaborating with a group of classmates on a light-hearted ...

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